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"Seven years after William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, two actors from his King’s Men troupe compiled his greatest hits into a collection known as the First Folio—36 plays, from The Tempest to Cymbeline, that form the core of what we traditionally think of when we think of Shakespeare. Of the 750 copies printed of the First Folio, less than a third survive...And one, given to the College as part of a bequest from Allerton Hickmott, Class of 1917, and his wife, Madelyn, is the second-most...

Cynthia Huntington, a professor of English and creative writing, and Darrin McMahon, the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor in the Department of history, have been awarded prestigious Guggenheim fellowships.  Click here.

The Dartmouth College English Department Presents

MODERNISMS: A CONFERENCE
April 7 & 8, 2016

The conference will bring together scholars working with a range of concepts of modernism and diverse approaches to modernist works. Papers will address modernism in its political and economic as well as aesthetic dimensions, and in its transnational configurations: concerned with literature and art as they work together...

Professors Donald Pease and James Dobson's winter term course, "The American Renaissance: Classic Literature of the 19th Century ," is available to all. For more…Dartmouth Now